Holder Inter Milan staged a second-half comeback to oust Bayern Munich on away goals in a repeat of last season's final, and Manchester United advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals for the fifth consecutive season by beating Marseille 2-1 on Tuesday.

Mario Gomez scored off a mistake by goalkeeper Julio Cesar in the 90th minute to give Bayern Munich a 1-0 win at Inter Milan in a rematch of last year's Champions League final, and Manchester United was held to a 0-0 tie at Marseille on Wednesday night in the final games of the second round's first leg.

Retiring at 62 became law in France on Wednesday, a victory for President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative government and a defeat for the unions that waged massive strikes and street protests to try to stop the austerity measure.

France's parliament is expected to grant final approval Wednesday to a bill raising the retirement age to 62, a reform that has infuriated the country's powerful unions and touched off weeks of protests and strikes.

France's massive strikes are costing the national economy up to 400 million euro ($557 million) each day, the French finance minister said Monday as workers continued to block oil refineries and trash incinerators to protest a plan to raise the retirement age to 62.